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Sedimentary characteristics of microbialites influenced by volcanic eruption: a case study from the Lower Cretaceous Shipu Group in Zhejiang Province, East China
Journal of Palaeogeography volume 9, Article number: 9 (2020)
Abstract
This study describes a sequence of microbialites and volcanics of the Lower Cretaceous Shipu Group, an example of microbialites influenced by volcanic activity. It is located at Shipu town in eastern Zhejiang Province on the coast of southeastern China. Based on macroscopic outcrop observations, microscopic examination of thin sections, electron probe microanalysis (EPMA), field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM) imaging analysis, and energy dispersive X-ray spectrometry (EDS) analysis, nine microbialite–tuffite assemblages have been recognized in the section. Their thickness increased gradually upwards as volcanism decreased. There are ooids, bioclastic grains, intraclasts and tuffaceous grains in the grain shoal with local dolomitization. Above the grain shoal, microbial reefs develop either individually or conjoining with adjacent ones, and consist of stromatolites and serpulid tubes with common recrystallization. Tubes of serpulids are calcified and the tube wall is micrite. The tube and intertube parts are filled by sparry calcite. Colonial serpulids are surrounded by microbes to form stromatolites. Black layers of stromatolites contain many calcite crystals with fan-shaped growth pattern and preserved organic matter. Microbes are so well preserved in crystal lattices that the original microstructure of the microbes can be clearly observed by FESEM imaging analysis. Microbial reefs develop at a local high point near or above fair-weather wave-base where waves removed fine volcanic ashes. Interreef deposits are coarse tuffite due to physical differentiation. Volcanic activity could provide rich nutrition for microbes, but too much fine volcanic ash inhibits microbial growth. As a result, a moderate supply of volcanic ash favors the development of microbialites.
1 Introduction
With the recent discovery of hydrocarbons in microbial carbonate reservoirs, such as the Gulf of Mexico in America (Mancini et al. 2008), Santos Basin in Brazil (Rezende and Pope 2015), and the Sichuan Basin in China (Li et al. 2013; Che et al. 2019), microbialite research has become a hotspot. In the geological record, microbialites may develop both in marine (Burne and Moore 1987; Riding 1991, 2000; Kershaw et al. 2007, 2012; Delfino et al. 2012; Bahniuk et al. 2015; Tang et al. 2017) and lacustrine facies (Lei et al. 2012; Tang et al. 2012; Della Porta 2015; Zhang et al. 2018). However, they are rarely found in strata influenced by volcanic eruptions. This paper describes the sedimentary characteristics of microbialites affected by volcanic activity. The Shipu microbialite-bearing section, commonly termed “the Shipu limestone”, is located at Shipu town, Xiangshan county in eastern Zhejiang Province on the coast of southeastern China along the coastal lowlands of the western Pacific Ocean (Fig. 1). These well-preserved microbialites have not previously been investigated. This study provides an opportunity to investigate the sedimentary characteristics of microbialites influenced by volcanic activity. Based on macroscopic observation of the outcrop, microscopic examination of thin sections, together with EPMA, FESEM and EDS, assemblage features of the microbialites and tuffite have been elucidated. The effects of volcanic activity are also made clear.
2 Geological setting
Since the Early Cretaceous, the study area experienced two basin-building stages. The first occurred at approximately 145–100 Ma ago (Early Cretaceous) and was characterized by volcanic faulted-depressions (Jahn 1974; John et al. 1990; Zhou et al. 2006). The second occurred at approximately 100–70 Ma ago (Late Cretaceous–Paleogene) and is characterized by red-colored sedimentary rocks. Corresponding to this two-stage basin development, the Lower Cretaceous is composed of rhyolite, lava, volcanic agglomerate, volcanic breccia, sedimentary volcaniclastic rocks, tuffite and some carbonates (Fig. 2). The Upper Cretaceous consists mainly of red siltstone, mudstone, and intercalated basalt. The Paleogene comprises mostly grey to purple coarse-grained clastic rocks, siltstone, mudstone and intercalated gypsum, and oil-bearing shale. The Neogene is composed of brown to yellow siltstones and is present locally (Hu et al. 2012a).
During the Early Cretaceous, seawater transgressed into the area that is now coastal southeastern China and limestones were deposited in coastal environments ranging from tidal flats to shallow marine (Xu and Zheng 1989; Xu 1991, 1992; Xie et al. 2010; Hu et al. 2012a, b; Xu et al. 2018).
In Shipu town, Xiangshan county, Zhejiang Province, the base of the section has faulted contact with volcanic breccia and ignimbrites of the Lower Cretaceous Moshishan Group, and the top is covered by Quaternary sediments (Fig. 2; Hu et al. 2012a).
3 Stratigraphy
As shown in Fig. 2, the total thickness of Shipu section is 150 m. The lower part of the section (0–30 m) consists mainly of volcanic agglomerate, volcanic breccia and tuffaceous sandstone. The middle part (31–105 m) contains mainly silicified tuffaceous sandstones, silicified tuffaceous siltstones, rhyolite, lava, silicified tuffites and microbialites. In contrast, the upper part (106–150 m) is composed mainly of silicified tuffites, microbialites and silicified tuffaceous siltstones. There are nine microbialite–tuffite assemblages in the section, and their thickness increases gradually upwards, as volcanism strength gradually decreases (Fig. 2).
4 Methods
In the Shipu section of the Lower Cretaceous Shipu Group, nine microbialite–tuffite assemblages were observed and measured. One hundred fifty-nine samples were examined in polished hand specimens and in corresponding thin-sections that were partially stained with Alizarin red S and potassium ferricyanide (Dickson 1966) to distinguish calcite and dolomite. Thin-sections were compared with their corresponding hand specimens in order to relate the macroscopic features to the accretion process, as interpreted by petrographic study. Polished slabs of microbialites were prepared for macro-structure observation. Petrologic thin sections of microbialites were made to examine fabrics.
Thirty-eight representative thin-sections of the various lithologies were examined by EPMA and EDS to identify the minerals, owing to complexity of these mixed carbonate and volcanic rocks.
In order to observe possible microbial signatures within stromatolites, freshly broken and polished chips of laminated structure were prepared for FESEM. These samples were cleaned by diluted water and then etched with 0.5% chloride acid for 3–5 s, followed by a second rinse by diluted water and ethyl alcohol. Some samples for FESEM analysis were polished with wide beam argon ion polishing instrument. Some were entirely coated with platinum for surface texture analysis and EDS analysis. These analyses were conducted in the Key Laboratory of Carbonate Reservoirs, CNPC, China.
5 Features of microbialite–tuffite assemblage
Because the lithology of the Shipu section is very complicated, when the strength of volcanic activity was very strong, microbialites could not develop. In order to elucidate features of the microbialites and the effects of volcanics associated with them, we chose the microbialite–tuffite assemblage 8 (see Fig. 2) to illustrate them in detail (Fig. 3). From bottom to top, Layers 70-0 to 70-1 are greyish-green tuffite with greyish-black tuffite interlayers. Layer 70-2 is serpulid-microbial reef with interreef deposit of coarse tuffite. Above the reef, Layer 70-3 is a 5-cm-thick tuffite which is dark grey and laminated. Layers 70-3.5 to 70-6 are yellow-green tuffite with dark grey tuffite interlayers. Layer 70-7 is grey limy tuffite. Layer 70-8 is a grain shoal deposit. The lower part of shoal is grey tuffaceous limestone, whereas the upper part is dolomitic grainstone including ooids, bioclasts and intraclasts. Above the grain shoal, Layer 70-9 is another serpulid-microbial reef layer and the interreef is coarse tuffite. Above the reefs, Layer 70-10, a 10-cm-thick laminated tuffite inhibited further reef growth. There are therefore three main lithologies in this assemblage of microbialites and tuffites: (1) carbonates; (2) tuffite; (3) mixed lithology.
5.1 Microbialites
5.1.1 Stromatolites (limestone)
As shown in Fig. 4, stromatolites developed in the reef where microbes and serpulids built the framework together. Serpulid-microbial reefs coalesced with adjacent ones or individually. Among them, the largest is 2.0 m wide and 1.7 m high (Figs. 4 and 5a). Colonial serpulids are surrounded by microbes which trapped and bound grains to form reef framework (Fig. 5c). Stromatolites show distinct macroscopic lamination (Fig. 5b–d) formed by dark and light laminae. Serpulids commonly live in groups (Fig. 6). Their calcareous tubes can be preserved (Fig. 6c–d) but their tentacles cannot be calcified and are not preserved after their death. The walls of their calcareous tubes remained micritic and are filled by sparry calcite (Fig. 6c–d). Microbes, such as cyanobacteria or others, surrounded the colonial serpulids and grew to form stromatolites by calcification and trapping and binding grains (Fig. 7). In the Shipu section, two kinds of accretion processes generated stromatolites: (1) Fan-shaped stromatolites accreted through the growth of colonies of filamentous microbes (probably cyanobacteria) and the early and pervasive precipitation of carbonate in the extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) sheaths of their filaments (Figs. 7c, e, 8b, c and 11c). Grains supplied on the stromatolite surface were not trapped and bound in the microbial EPS, but only deposited between the filament fans (Suarez-Gonzalez et al. 2019). (2) Flat-shaped stromatolites accreted through the growth of other microbes and grains were trapped and bound in the uncalcified EPS (Fig. 7d, f). Thin micritic crusts (orange lines) separate successive laminae and formed during interruption in accretion.
In order to search for possible microbial signatures within stromatolites (Li et al. 2017), freshly broken and polished chips (using a wide beam argon ion polishing instrument) from a darker layer in the stromatolites were prepared for FESEM imaging analysis. These samples were coated with platinum for surface texture analysis and EDS analysis. As shown in Fig. 8, a sample from the top of a reef was chosen to search for the microbes which may occur in the darker laminae (red rectangle, Fig. 8a). Under plane-polarized light, photomicrographs show stromatolites with well-preserved fan-shaped growth pattern (Fig. 8b, c). A FESEM image of a freshly broken chip from a darker layer shows calcite crystals, clay minerals and suspected microbes (Fig. 8d). Many microbial remains can be seen in FESEM photomicrographs which are displayed in a relatively darker color (Figs. 8e and 9a). In calcite crystals, some microbes are preserved so well that the cells can be clearly seen in FESEM photomicrographs of polished samples (Fig. 9d–f). EDS analysis shows that the carbon element content is high, up to 71.1 wt% (Fig. 9c), and that the host is a calcite crystal (Fig. 9b).
5.1.2 Oolitic limestone with bioclasts and intraclasts
Oolitic limestone occurs in the upper part of Layer 70-8 (Figs. 3 and 10), which is 15–20 cm thick below the serpulid-microbial reef. Layer 70-8 is a grain bank that developed in a high-energy zone near or above fair-weather wave-base (FWWB) and is mainly composed of oolitic limestone, including bioclasts and intraclasts (Fig. 10c–f), with local dolomitization (Fig. 10d). A whole fossil gastropod can be seen in Fig. 10e.
5.2 Tuffites
Tuffite is a volcanic ash deposit, which implies that the study area was relatively far away from the volcanic crater. Tuffite occurs above and below the microbialites, and is also deposited in interreef environments.
5.2.1 Laminated fine tuffite
Laminated fine tuffite that developed above the reefs is 5–10 cm thick (Fig. 3). A sample (Figs. 10a and 11a) from the interface between reef and tuffite shows that the upper part of it is laminated fine tuffite (Fig. 11b) and that the lower part is stromatolite with fan-shaped growth pattern (Fig. 11c). EPMA and EDS analyses show that the laminated fine tuffite is composed of aluminosilicate minerals such as feldspars and abundant pyrite (Fig. 11d).
5.2.2 Tuffite with coarse fabrics
Tuffite with coarse fabrics occurs in the interreef spaces (Figs. 10a and 12a). Photomicrographs of it show many coarse fabrics which are smaller than 2 mm in fine matrix (Fig. 12b, d). These coarse grains contain many aluminosilicate minerals such as analcite (formula: NaAlSi2O6·H2O), feldspar and pyrite. Analcite is white in color under plane-polarized light (Fig. 12b) and shows complete extinction under cross-polarized light (Fig. 12d). EPMA and EDS analyses (Fig. 12c) show that the minerals showing complete extinction under cross-polarized light are analcites.
5.3 Mixed lithology
Mixed lithology develops at the bottom of the grain bank (Layer 70-8, Fig. 10b) and in Layer 70-7 (Fig. 10a). There are two kinds of mixed lithology: limy tuffite occurs in Layer 70-7 (Fig. 10a, h) and tuffaceous limestone develops at the bottom of the grain bank (Fig. 10b, g).
6 Results
Based on the above description of all types of lithology, from macroscale through mesoscale to microscale, nine microbialite–tuffite assemblages have been recognized in the Shipu section. Their thicknesses increase gradually upwards as volcanic activity decreased. Stromatolites developed in the reef where microbes and serpulids built the framework together. Colonial serpulids are surrounded by microbes which trapped and bound grains to form a reef framework. Below the reefs, a grain bank developed in a high-energy zone near or above fair-weather wave-base. Above the reefs, laminated fine tuffite occurs.
A typical sedimentary cycle, from tuffite through a grain bank to microbial reefs and then tuffite, can be seen clearly in Figs. 3 and Fig. 10a.
7 Discussion
How is it that serpulid-microbial reefs can coexist with tuffite with coarse fabrics, whereas a 5–10-cm-thick laminated fine tuffite layer can stop the growth of reefs? To answer this question, a two-dimensional depositional model has been established which illustrates the palaeoenvironmental evolution for development of the various rock types (Fig. 13).
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Stage A: Volcanic ash from a distant crater is deposited and forms tuffite (Fig. 3, Layer 70-6, Layer 70-7; Fig. 10h).
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Stage B: Volcanic ash from a distant crater diminishes, and grain shoals develop in a high-energy zone, near or above FWWB, composed of oolitic limestone and tuffaceous limestone including bioclasts, intraclasts and tuffaceous grains. Some metazoans such as gastropods can be seen in sections which suggests that the water was relatively clean (Fig. 3, Layer 70-8; Fig. 10b–g),
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Stage C: As the volcanic ash increases, the water quality declines again and many metazoans cannot survive, whereas this environment is very suitable for microbes because macronutrients for microbes are C, N, H, and O, and other nutrients are P, S, K, Mg, Na, Ca, and Fe (Li et al. 2009). Volcanic eruption is important in producing nutrient elements, such as N, P, K, and Fe. It also produces radioactive elements. At local high points (above grain shoals), serpulid-microbial reefs develop near or above FWWB where waves remove fine volcanic ash. Microbes and serpulids build the framework together to resist the waves. However, coarser ash deposits occupy interreef depressions because of physical differentiation.
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Stage D: As sea level rises, reefs find themselves below FWWB where waves cannot remove fine volcano ash from distant craters. This fine volcano ash inhibits reef growth (too much fine volcanic ash buries the serpulids and microbes) and form deposits of laminated fine tuffite.
8 Conclusions
Based on macroscopic observation of outcrop, microscopic examination of thin sections, EPMA analysis, FESEM imaging analysis and EDS analysis, we can reach the following conclusions:
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Nine microbialite–tuffite assemblages have been recognized in the section and their thickness increases gradually upwards as volcanism decreases.
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Serpulid-microbial reefs develop either individually or conjoined with adjacent ones, and consist of stromatolites and serpulid tubes that are commonly recrystallized. Serpulid tubes are calcified and the tube wall is micrite. Tube interiors and intertube areas are filled by sparry calcite. Thus, colonial serpulids are surrounded by microbes to form stromatolites.
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In the Shipu section, two kinds of accretionary processes generated stromatolites: (i) Fan-shaped stromatolites accreted through the growth of colonies of filamentous microbes (probably cyanobacteria) together with early and pervasive precipitation of carbonate in the EPS sheaths of their filaments. Grains supplied to the stromatolite surface were not trapped and bound in the microbial EPS, but were only deposited between the filament fans. (ii) Flat-shaped stromatolites accreted through the growth of other microbes and grains which were trapped and bound in the uncalcified EPS. Thin micritic crusts separating successive laminae formed during interruption in accretion.
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Microbes are so well preserved in crystal lattices that the original microstructure of even the cells can be observed clearly by FESEM imaging analysis.
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In the Shipu section, microbial reefs developed at local high points near or above fair-weather wave-base, where waves removed fine volcanic ash. Interreef deposition was coarse tuffite due to physical differentiation.
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Volcanic activity could provide rich nutrition for microbes but too much fine volcanic ash inhibited microbial growth. Consequently, moderate supply of volcanic ash favored microbial carbonate development.
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The data analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
Abbreviations
- CNPC:
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China National Petroleum Corporation
- EDS:
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Energy dispersive X-ray spectrometry
- EPMA:
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Electron probe microanalysis
- EPS:
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Extracellular polymeric substances
- FESEM:
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Field emission scanning electron microscopy
- FWWB:
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Fairweather wavebase
- MSL:
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Mean sea level
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The authors would like to appreciate Hong-Yu Chen, Qian Pan, Si-Cong Luo, Dong-Fang Zhao for sampling and Professor Guo-Hua Zhu for thin-section identification of volcanical rocks. We also sincerely acknowledge Professor Jing-Shan Chen for helpful comments and suggestions on this manuscript and Professor Robert Riding for helping us to revise the manuscript especially language errors. We also gratefully acknowledge the Editor-in-chief, Professor Zeng-Zhao Feng and four anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments and suggestions on this manuscript.
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XFW, XCT, SNZ and AJS conceived the idea of the study. XFW, XCT, AJS, GH, XW, ZLC, LYP and JZ did the fieldwork and sampling. XFW, XCT, XW and ZLC observed thin sections. XFW, XCT and WC did analytical testing. XFW, XCT, AJS and CL interpreted the results and wrote the paper. XFW and XCT revised the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
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Wang, XF., Tan, XC., Zhang, SN. et al. Sedimentary characteristics of microbialites influenced by volcanic eruption: a case study from the Lower Cretaceous Shipu Group in Zhejiang Province, East China. J. Palaeogeogr. 9, 9 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s42501-020-00058-w
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